Newspaper-holder.



w. E. ALTHOUSE. NEWSPAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 11, 1911.

Patented Aug; 8,1911.

sown mu PLANOURAPH CO. WASHINGTON. D- C- FFIG.

WILLIAM E. ALTHOUSE, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 11, 1911.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

Serial No. 607,952.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. ALTrioU-sE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of Reading, in the county of Berksand State of Pennsylvania, have in vented certain new and usefulImprovements in NewspapenHolders, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to means for securely holding newspapers or thelike so as to prevent their being stolen, lost, or in jured after beingplaced therein; and it consists in a simply constructed and operateddevice applicable to outside door frames, and comprising a singleholding jaw adapted to cooperate with the closed door in gripping thepaper, as more fully described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention; the novelfeatures being specifically pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Figure 1 is a front view of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is asectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1; the device being shown inconnection with a door amb and door, and the sliding jaw represented ascooperating with the latter to hold an interposed newspaper. Fig. 3 isan inside face view of the casing cover plate employed in the specificconstruction shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4L is a rear view of thedevice with the cover plate removed; the easing as here indicatedhowever showing a modified construction in which the rack, and the pawllifting and carrying projections, are formed on the main casing insteadof on the cover plate thereof.

The single holding jaw of my device comprises a slide bar 2 providedwith a handle end 3 and with a bracket or arm 4 having a gripping end 5.This slide bar 2 is engaged in a recessed guide-way 6 of a casing frame7, with the arms: projecting through a slot 8 in the latter; and saidcasing is provided with suitable flanges or lugs 9, 9 for securing thesame in proper position upon the jamb 10 of a door frame. Upon the innerface of the slide bar 2 is provided a projecting pin 11 upon which ispivotally mounted a pawl 12. A separately formed casing plate 13 servesto properly cover the sliding jaw bar and the pawl carried thereby.

To cooperate with the pawl 12 in retaining the sliding jaw in aprojected clamping position, I provide a fixed rack 15, which ispreferably formed, as shown in Figs. 1, 2

and 3, upon the inner face of the casing plate 13; said rack being soarranged that the free end of the pawl will normally fall intoengagement with it and hold the sliding jaw in any paper-clampingposition to which it is moved relative to the closed door. When a paperor like article is thus clamped it will be readily seen that it cannotbe released excepting by opening the door 16. To reset the sliding jawit is necessary to provide for releasing the pawl from the rack so as topermit withdrawal of the jaw. This I accomplish in a simple manner byproviding on the casing a pawl-lifting projection 20, against which aside portion 21 of the pawl is adapted to strike when the. slide jaw ispushed fully forward, so as to positively raise the pawl well out ofengagement with the rack, and permit the slide bar to be quicklywithdrawn before the pawl can drop again into contact with the rack. Thepawl being supported in raised position by the lifting projection 20,when the jaw is in extreme forward position, a quick rearward movementof the jaw to the other extreme position may be freely made; but inorder to positively prevent the pawl dropping into engagement beforesuch rearward movement is fully affected, I in some cases provide apawl-carrying projection 22 upon which a carrying projection 23 on theadjacent face of the pawl is adapted to ride until the rearward movementis nearly completed. These fixed projections 20 and 22 are preferablyformed upon the casing cover plate 13, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, butmay obviously be provided upon the main casing as indicated in Fig, 1.

The gripping end 5 of the sliding jaw is preferably provided with agripping projection or projections 25 on its paper-contacting face,which serve to effectually prevent possible removal of the paper withoutsuch mutilation as will clearly evidence the fact. The single sliding awwith its gravity pawl, is the only moving part of the device; and thelocking and setting operations are effected solely by the sliding ofthis jaw, while the releasing of the article held can be effected onlyby the opening of the door.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a door j amb and a door, of aholder casing fixed to said amb and provided with a rack,.a holder jawslidable in said casing toward and away from said door and adapted tocooperate with the latter in gripping an interposed article, a pawlcarried by said jaw, and means for lifting said pawl clear of the rackby a final forward movement of the jaw.

2. The combination with a door j amb and a door, of a holder casingfixed to said jamb and provided with a rack, a holder jaw slidable insaid casing toward and away from said door and adapted to cooperate withthe latter in gripping an interposed article, a pawl carried by saidjaw, and means for lifting said pawl clear of the rack by a finalforward movement of the jaw and for main taining the same in raisedposition during a succeeding rearward movement thereof.

3. The combination with a door jamb and a door, of a holder casing fixedto said jamb and provided with a rack and a pawl-lifting projection, aholder jaw slidable in said casing toward and away from said door andadapted to cooperate with the latter in gripping an interposed article,and a pawl pivotally carried by said jaw and adapted to engage saidprojection during a final forward movement of the jaw.

4. The combination with a door amb and a door, of a holder casing fixedto saidjamlo and provided with a rack, a pawl-lifting projection, and apawl-carrier projection, a holder jaw slidable in said casing toward andaway from said door, and a pawl pivotally carried by said jaw andadapted to successively engage said projections.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

l/VILLIAM E. ALTHOUSE.

lVitnesses:

D, M. STEWART, T. G. STEWART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

